THE WORLD OF "YU"
Ryun Yu was a geek. He first garnered national press attention by diagramming the world's second longest sentence
(from a book by William Faulkner) - his early interests were astrophysics and computers, until he realized that he was never going to get the chicks that way.
He knew he had no real interest in science as a career, but for a variety of reasons he chose M.I.T. for college. This resulted in a number of things: the first theater degree ever awarded by M.I.T; the possibility that 'if he got big they would give him a statue; and the killer advantage of being one of the few actors with a grounding in multi-variable calculus and a working knowledge of holography.
After college he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and after graduation, went to Los Angeles.
In the next few years he did some theatre ('Hamlet' in Singapore; 'Sisters Matsumoto' with The East-West Players, at Seattle Rep and in San Jose;' Kate Crackernuts' in LA; and various pieces with the Taper New Works Festival, the Geffen production of 'Take Me Out' and the very recent Fountain Theatre 'What I Heard About Iraq'), meditated a lot, and worked on both his Sean Connery and Keanu Reeves impersonations.
Since turning to film and TV, he quickly won guest spots on such shows as 'Curb Your Enthusiam', 'Cold Case', 'Arli$$', 'The Shield' '24', 'ER'and "Huff". His recent NBC pilot for James Burrows and Larry Wilmore 'Beverly Hills SUV' was not picked up, but, on the bright side, Ryun has finally stopped crying. . Films include independents for Cherry Sky Films and Richard Day.
